If God is everything, or if everything partakes of God, then in having only God -- in seeking only union with him -- we will have everything without the intrusive desire to also possess them. By union with God we share in all that shares with him, or with which he shares himself. Owning things one at a time is a far less appealing alternative. Wanting to grasp things (or people or even ideas), to incorporate them as my very own is to invite such tragic poverty.
It is in dying that we live, and in letting go that we have. It is in the dying that death becomes unimportant, and in letting go that possession stops being of value. We can, by letting go of everything, allow it a freedom to be only itself rather than owned. Letting go frees us to have in the detached way that God has, a way that encourages thriving rather than stifling and limiting, possessing as my own what I must then keep from belonging to anyone else.
Grasping, excluding others who may also want whatever it is, seems so limiting, so demanding of energy. In having, we are the ones possessed. Better to be instead in God, and more fully within myself.
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